What is the full title of Georgia O'Keeffe's 1932 painting often called Jimson Weed?

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The full title of Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1932 painting often called Jimson Weed is Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1. The title identifies both the plant and its place in O'Keeffe’s numbered white-flower works.

The painting shows a single enlarged white jimson-weed blossom. O'Keeffe’s close-up flower paintings are not botanical illustrations in the ordinary sense; their scale and cropping turn familiar natural forms into commanding modernist compositions.

The work remained in the collection of the O'Keeffe family until it was sold at Sotheby’s in 2014. Its auction price of $44.4 million established a record for a work by a female artist at that time. The record has since been surpassed, but the painting remains a landmark of O'Keeffe’s career and of the art market.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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